[Jython-users] copy and deepcopy not copying Java class variables?

[Barbalute <Bar...@gm...>]

As the name suggests, it seems that copy and deepcopy aren't copying the
variables in my Java class.

I currently have a Python class extending an existing Java abstract class.
For various reasons, I've overwritten clone() in the Python class so that
when the Java class calls it, it returns a deepcopy() of itself.

This seems to properly copy the methods from the class, but the variables
from the abstract Java class are lost in the copy, and I have no idea why.

In the overwritten Python clone() method, I'm able to manually copy over the
variables, doing for example:

x = copy.deepcopy(self)
x.name = self.name
return x

But this shouldn't be necessary and becomes increasingly unwieldy for
classes with lots of variables. If I don't do it, though, name is not set in
x and will return null in Java. Am I doing something wrong, or is something
broken with copy() and deepcopy()?

Thanks for your time.
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